Society, Justice & Peace: Human Rights Quotes

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"I think on civilian casualties, they could do more. It's actually something I've discussed with the editors involved. They're aware of it, and I'm hopeful that there will be more reporting on that"

Daniel Okrent, Editor

"Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world"

Patrick J. Kennedy, Politician

"I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name"

Hugh Mackay, Writer

"The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations"

Rick Renzi, Politician

"The Democrats in the Senate adopted a resolution, an amendment, saying that there should be no Guantanamo detainees brought into this country. So, more and more, we're finding the American people on one side, the ACLU and the troglodytes from the New York Times on the other, where they belong"

Peter King, Politician

"We can't gather the intelligence we need to foil future attacks, if we are blindly granting terrorists the right to remain silent. But for some reason, we've already done that - with the terrorist who tried to bring down Flight 253"

Peter King, Politician

"There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them"

Peter King, Politician

"Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others' situation"

Ben Edwards, Entertainer

"I represent all the enlightened people in this country, and that's a fine thing to be able to do. It infuriates my opponents when I say this, but it is true"

Helen Suzman, Politician

"As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death"

Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Statesman

"An occupying power has no right to make significant alterations in the character of the occupied society, to change the laws all around, without a strong security reason and so forth"

Juan Cole, Educator

"Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?"

King Abdullah II, Statesman

"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England"

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist

"Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit"

Abu Bakar Bashir, Activist

"In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them"

Albert Speer, Criminal

"You can't undo a deportation"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay"

George Grey, Leader

"I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution"

Fanny Kemble, Actress

"I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man"

Fanny Kemble, Actress

"I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day"

Gregg Easterbrook, Author

"Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own them to masters who do not; and it does not require much demonstration to prove that their estate is not always the more gracious"

Fanny Kemble, Actress

"In my Gau, as far as I know, only Communists who had actually worked against the State were arrested"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge"

Ernst Zundel, Activist

"The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"So, it, of course, makes one wonder how many other people there might be who are completely innocent, who have been sent by the U.S. to countries where they've been interrogated, and in some instances, it seems tortured"

Jane Mayer, Journalist

"I mean, The New York Times actually had an interesting case recently where they described a detainee who was afraid of the dark, and so he was purposely kept very much in the dark"

Jane Mayer, Journalist

"I believe that the majority of Egyptian people know who is Hosni Mubarak, and it pains me what has been expressed by some people from my own country"

Hosni Mubarak, Statesman

"They reality is that we have 70% of our voters use a punch card system that I tried to change and that bipartisan resistance in the legislature stopped"

Kenneth Blackwell, Politician

"All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished"

George Grey, Leader

"Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science"

Jane Mayer, Journalist

"I mean, the people who run Guantanamo, the military, pretty much dismiss complaints by the detainees because they say that they're all created as part of a political process to sort of fake complaints and get public support"

Jane Mayer, Journalist

"And, in fact, there is a connection, the people who designed this here program and who implement it are the same people who are overseeing and helping in the interrogations of detainees in places like Guantanamo"

Jane Mayer, Journalist

"My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career"

Helen Suzman, Politician

"I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for"

Helen Suzman, Politician

"It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly"

Gregg Easterbrook, Author

"It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends"

James Laughlin, Poet

"In the north, we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live"

Fanny Kemble, Actress

"In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov, in what human rights groups are calling a massacre"

Ed Markey, Politician

"The election in Iraq clearly demonstrates that Iraqi people are like people everywhere. They desire to create a future in an environment that is safe and allows them to reach their full potential as human beings, whatever that potential may be"

John Ensign, Politician

"I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

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